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·THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 16,

WAR

DIFFERENT CHINA

AFTER THE Justified Claim To Equality

ECONOMIC POOLING IN N. AMERICA

A group of Canadian officials and American

and economists is to be-

"WHAT SORT OF A CHINA are we to gin pooling ideas to-day regarding the joint econo: expect at the end of the war?" asked Brig. mic programme for the Gen. C. R. Woodroffe, Chairman of the China U.S. and Canada suggest- Association, at the annual meeting in London ed in the "Hyde Park

declaration" of Mr. Mac- kenzie King, Canadian Premier, and President

Roosevelt.

The Canadian

section of

the

joint economic committee arrived two-day initial session with the

in New York vesterday to open a

American branch.

The Joint committee, the spokesman of the Canadians ex- plained, had been created pri- marily to study, firstly ways in which defence efforts can be more effective through cooperation and materials and. interchange of secondly, 11 long-range pro- gramme that might tend to fore- stall, or at least lighten. Cana- dian-American post-war malad- justments. Reuter,

GIRLS

SAVE MEN

Stuck in a deep crater during a blitz, two women

yesterday.

"We all assume ours to be the winning deny that our side side and few would includes China.. Hence China after the war will be a victorious China which will be able justifiably to claim she helped us as much as, if not more, than we helped her.

"Is it conceivable that such a China would either be offered or would accept

other any status than of equality?"

Alluding to the many signs that Japan intended Boon to make a fresh move, probably southward, Brig. Gen. Wood- roffe expressed the opinion she would have made it earlier but for prolonged resistance by China,

If she did so Britain and China would become more than col- laborators in the night against

PARALYSED NINE YEARS, WOMAN

NOW KNITS

In the bright, cheerful aggression, they would be ranged kitchen of her mother's

together against the common enemy.

Changes

the statements in the Commons

little flat, near Ladbroke- grove, I met Hilda, states an "Evening Standard" reporter.

Hilda is 26. She has a serene forehead and a happy smile.

The British Government in bygone times, he said, appeared to take little account of Chinese road feelings, but he drew attention to night by Mr. Churchill on June 18, ambul-1940, and by Mr. Eden on June 11 this year, pledging revision of ance drivers found tea the Chinese treaties on a basis of

reciprocity and equality. and cigarettes for their

Brig-Gen. Woodroffe expressed only conscious patient confidence that British interests and defled bombs to get view but considered

thereby affected would be kept in

it not too Now she can move her arms their battered vehicle on early for those interests to pre-sufficiently to pick up a biscuit a beret in wool-weaving. She was busy on the beret when I called.

cur-Reuter.

When she was 17 she became paralysed. Until five months ago she was unable to raise a hand to feed herself. All she did was to sit helplessly in her wheeled chair.

to the road to hospital pare for changes which must oc- from a plate and to make herself and save a man bleeding! to death.

They are Miss Pauline Jack- son, twenty-seven, and Mrs. Joan Cooper, twenty-four of Bistol.

"If ever any girls deserved |a medal, they did," Charlie Hoyle, the only conscious patient, told a reporter.

***We took three and a .halt

RABAT PLOT" ALLEGED

"Try doing nothing for nine how happy I am to have a job

years, amiled Hilda, "and seo

to do.

Planned Tasks Gradually she is being cured by. occupational therapy treatment in which cripples regun the use

into

+

A Free French plot has of their limbs by working at tasks hours to go a mile or so to hos-been discovered at Rabat, planned to bring the right muscles pital, and for what seemed an the German radio an-

Highly developed in the United eternity we were stuck on our nounced yesterday quot-States this method is increasing- side in a huge road crater,^

ing a message from ly used for wounded in British waa paralysed from Tangier

Every time Hilda slowly and

an

shrapnel wounds and there was unconscious, man bleeding heavily beside me. The bomba fell all round us, but the girls, unable to move us to shelter, would not leave us.

"In the pitch blackness they fumbled with our bandages and even got me a cup of tea and a cigarette."

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“Hell For Leather' Miss Jackson said: "We were handicapped by a flat tyre, and then; dazzled by bombit flashes, drove into a huge crater.--

"I ran for help and found: *-warden who-fetched="" some" soldiers, Somghow we changed- the wheels and eventually -number of men lifted tho am“

bulatico out-of-the crater. "We had to keep diving to avoid lumps of shrapnel, I fetched some tea from a nearby house and took a cigarette from the lips of one of our rescuers to give my patient. T

More than 20,

including an ncial of the French Chamber of Commerce at Tangier, have been arrested, It was stated.

military hospitals.

MIDDLE EAST AIR ACTIVITY

Bomber aircraft of the R.A.F. in the Middle East yesterday carried out an attack on the aerodrome at Zuara in Tripolitania, says an R.A.F. communi- que issued in Cairo.

Bombs were seen to hit the aerodrome buildings and a num- ber of enemy transport aircraft on the ground were damaged by machine-gun fire.

One Junkers 52 was set on fire During the night of July 13-14, heavy bombers raided Bardia and Benghazi, causing a number of explosions and fires...

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MESSINA BOMBED BY: RAF.

1941.

The It on port of Messing was raided: on Monday night, ac- cording to Rome communique. „

R.A:F. raids on Benghazi, Derna, Bardia and the Gon- dar area of Abyssinia are also admitted,

The communique claims British attacks at Sollum and Tobruk were repulsed. Reuter.

U.S. MISSION

IN GİB.

}

THE SITUATION IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN WAS THE SUBJECT. OF .CON- FERENCES BETWEEN GENER- AL LORD GORT, GOVERNOR 'AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF GIBRALTAR, AND A U.S. MISSION TO

A Junkers 88 and a Bavola: GOVERNMENT

The mission has now proceeded onwards to England after a three- days stay.

79 were shot down by our air- THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE craft in the Western Desert dur-MEDITERRANEAN. ing recent operations.. In Syria, our fighters attacked and severely damaged a Savoia 79 which approached the Syrian coast yesterday. The enemy air- craft was seen out at sea, emit- ting clouds of black smoke and appeared unlikely base.

to reach

The mission flew to the Middle East and remained there five weeks.

G. I was headed by Mr. W. its Harriman and other members, Brigadier-General R. Boyce,

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of

All our aircraft returned sai the U.S. army air force, and Col.

Green, # tank ly from these operations.--Reu- A.

ter.

NEW

Reuter.

expert.

VERSION OF HITLER-GOERING CONFLICT

NEW LIGHT UPON the reported Hitler- Goering rift over the invasion of the Soviet Union is thrown by a Buenos Aires mailed despatch to the New York "Daily News," which, according to that newspaper, was posted some four days before the Soviet radio broadcast the report,

Goering is confined to his home and many generals have been moved because they share his opposition to the Nazi attack on the U.S.S.R., states the despatch..

The report, it added, comes from sources in close touch with three representatives of German heavy industries who recently arrived in Buenos Aires.

painstakingly plles her needle, or pushes studs into a leather belt, she takes a step nearer, the day when her crippled hands are

These men, one of whom is re-expressed the opinion that such a The police discovered, a large, cured,REA

presenting Goering's Steel Trust, campaign would become a war, of amount of propaganda material When the workshop at Malda are reported to be emissaries of attrition in which Germany and which will form part of the Vale Hospital for Nervous Dis-the Reichswehr generals who, it is the Soviet would eventually be evidence against those arrested. cases, where Hilda used to be stated, are aligning themselves exhausted. They will be charged in court wheeled, for her treatment was with heavy industry in the same. with having connived at the destroyed by a bomb, Hilda fashion as Hitler did lato in 1920, desertion of Frenchmen to join thought her cure would be. inter- They are reported to have said General de Gaulle's army and rupted. It was not with having made, arrangements for obtaining recruits

a for- gng army-Reuter:

CALL TO

IRAQ YOUTH

Hitler's Rage.........

that when Hitler told, his gen Hitler flew into a ragé, accord-

upt instead of patients going, toerals that he had decided to at-ing to the German representatives

the cure, the cure now goca to

tack, the Soviet Union, he was quoted in the despatch, and Gen- the patients, Supervising Huda'aahooked on learning that bla erals Brauchitsch and Kelter came

work, was Miss Margaret Heath- cote, the hospital's occupational therapy expert.

Men Mended iBoots

"Working under a A CALL TO THE YOUTH OF plan the Jobs of nee IRAQ AND THE WHOLE ARAB and other tra WORLD TO UNITE, WAS MADE patients," she told BY EMIR ABDUL ILLAL RE- workshop men patien GENT OF IRAQ, BROADCAST- pentry and mended ING YESTERDAY,

boots.

General Staff was unanimously to his defence while Generals List, opposed to suph, a venturo.

Stuelpnagel and --- Falkenhorst op- Goering, adds, the despatch, posed. made, a counter-proposal that de-

mands should be made in Moscow As a result, the despatch adds, for the deuvery to Germany of Hitler is procceding i cautiously. doctor, the economic direction of the with a bloodless purge.

weaving Ukraina and the Caucasus, while HE HAS CONTINED GOERING crippled - General Reichenau is said to have "In the did-car- evacueca

TO HIS HOME WITH A CHOICE OF OPENLY "AFFIRMING - HIS LOYALTY TO THE FUEHRER Heathcote studied for six years at IN A BROADCAST TO THE The Iraql Government, he said; "The Idea is not only to work! an art school. "Not necessary, but GERMAN PEOPLE OR BEING "It was terrible being unable was vigilantly watching over the disused muscles, but to give the it helps," she said of her art ex- SENT TO A SANATORIUM.MUS of her art ex. In addition, the despatch says, to get them into hospital or move independence and interests of the psychological benefit of doing a perience.

She has also visited the United the generala opposing the invasion them to safety, for we know one country, and the efforts of foreign useful jobs was bleeding to death, but once powers to attain their wicked alms. It is not easy to become an ocStates and the Netherlands to of the Soviet Union have been we got out we drove. hell for had been completely frustrated,cupational therapist. The training studý advanced methods of oc- shifted so that they will tako little leather."

part in thu campaign.-Reuter, takes 21⁄2 years. Before that Miss: cupational therapy in hospitals. Router.